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Why Bookshare?

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Designed for students with learning, visual, and physical disabilities.

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Save time sourcing or remediating learning materials on your own.

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Increase student reading proficiency and learning independence.

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Funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (U.S. Dept. of Ed).

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To join, students must have a qualifying disability that prevents them from reading print, like dyslexia, blindness, low vision, or physical disability.

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My students with learning disabilities like dyslexia rely on Bookshare to access grade-level materials that they cannot decode or read independently. We do not have enough staff to read with them so we rely on this tool immensely.

-Amy, Special Education Teacher in Idaho

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Our Mission

We believe that access to information is a universal human right. Yet more than ninety percent of books and published materials cannot be read by people with disabilities. Our work is focused on making reading accessible to everyone around the world.